Notes and Queries, Number 11, January 12, 1850 by Various
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Some willing man, that might instruct his sons,
And that would stand to good conditions. First, that he lie upon the truckle-bed, While his young master lieth o'er his head; Second, that he do, upon no default, Never to sit above the salt; Third, that he never change his trencher twise; Fourth, that he use all common courtesies, Sit bare at meales, and one half rise and wait; Last, that he never his young master beat, But he must aske his mother to define How manie jerks she would his breech should line; All these observ'd, he could contented be, To give five markes, and winter liverie." R. _Travelling in England._--I forward you a note on this subject, extracted, some years ago, from a very quaintly-written _History of England_, without title-page, but apparently written in the early part of the reign of George the First. It is among the remarkable events of the reign of James the First:-- "A.D. 1621, July the 17th, Bernart Calvert of Andover, rode from St. George's Church in Southwark to Dover, from thence passed by Barge to Callais in France, and from thence returned back to Saint George's Church the same day. This his journey he performed betwixt the hours of three in the morning and eight in the afternoon." This appears to me such a surprising feat, that I think some of your |
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